tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813842527488109648.post4239419542126526403..comments2018-02-16T09:51:39.537-06:00Comments on Barbara's Force Free Animal Training Talk: A Parrot Can Change Your LifeBarbara Heidenreichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023471815028634939noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813842527488109648.post-26149026992675930762010-02-18T15:53:43.866-06:002010-02-18T15:53:43.866-06:00I&#39;m always glad to hear that someone else noti...I&#39;m always glad to hear that someone else notices the sweet scent of an Amazon. We also have a Blue-Front and I love to bury my face in her neck to enjoy that scent. Poor hubby can&#39;t smell it! Thankfully, it&#39;s one thing I&#39;m NOT allergic to. :-)Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09072341999740074015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813842527488109648.post-408573213543601582010-02-07T18:04:39.835-06:002010-02-07T18:04:39.835-06:00What a great story Aminah! Thanks so much for shar...What a great story Aminah! Thanks so much for sharing it.Barbara Heidenreichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023471815028634939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813842527488109648.post-57320965673898035802010-02-07T18:02:50.333-06:002010-02-07T18:02:50.333-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Barbara Heidenreichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023471815028634939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813842527488109648.post-42298393515308986222010-02-06T21:19:42.769-06:002010-02-06T21:19:42.769-06:00So very touching. A parrot changed my life, that i...So very touching. A parrot changed my life, that is for sure. A tiny blue budgie named Nunu. I always loved birds, always watched them in parks and found them to be very funny. I had birds growing up, or shall I say, my parents had birds. I never considered having them myself until one day in a Petco, this little blue budgie caught my eye. My husband and I had decided we needed a pet and wanted to &#39;start small&quot; so we agreed on fish. I was waiting for the employee to come help me get some fish but by the time she arrived I had forgotten all about those fish. Watching Nunu run around the cage bossing everyone around, ripping millet from the beaks of other birds, pulling tails, and then scurrying off to hide behind this obviously older pale blue budgie for protection was downright entertaining. I had to have them both. I bought them, came home $300 poorer without fish. I had these two quirky birds on my kitchen table and was so scared because they would not eat, which began my terrified google searches, where I found your website, and several others. The other budgie is named Jazzie, she is still the protector, and true leader of the flock, but Nunu handled the dirty work, the bossing others around, Jazzie is far too busy chewing on things to handle such mundane tasks. Nunu is abnormally small, nothing wrong with her, she is just very tiny for a budgie, as if they are not tiny enough !! <br /><br />Well this flock of two turned into a flock of 10 various parrots, all rescues. Nunu changed my life. I was a bored housewife looking for a pet and what I found was a totally changed life. I had been to college, graduated and was floating, had no idea what i really wanted to do, and was stuck in small town USA with no real options. with the birds came a realization that I wanted to be a vet, just like when i was 5 yrs old &quot;rescuing&quot; all the animals I could find and bringing them home for my grandparents to feed. I wanted to help birds, in any possible way I could. So I am back in college, studying veterinary medicine, obtaining as many courses, certificates and as much knowledge as I can about birds, how to train them, save them and love them. It was Nunu, sitting on my finger giving me sweet kisses and hopping up and down to Bob Marley (her absolute favorite) and her extreme jealousy when I paid attention to the other birds that put this fire inside of me. Jazzie took forever to come around, she wanted nothing to do with people. She did eventually come around and she is a real lover now, my most trained, most tame and most affection bird, of the budgies anyway. This love is like nothing I have experienced before, not even from a cat or dog. To get a bird to trust you, to land on you, even to run to you when scared because it knows you are safety, is truly one of the greatest accomplishments a person can make in their life. I have since lost Nunu this last week, the pain is incredible. I love all my pets, but they are all different. Nunu was my beacon, my muse. She was supposed to become a cantankerous old lady. I will miss her everyday for the rest of my life, my flock will never be complete. However, for the rest of my life I will do what I can do to help birds, whatever that ends up being.Aminah Alzahirhttp://www.birdiemenagerie.comnoreply@blogger.com